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A sustainable community based tourism enterprises through Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia in Semporna, Sabah: opportunities and challenges


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Ibrahim, Mohd Romzee and Shuib, Ahmad and Ramachandran, Sridar and Mohammad Afandi, Syamsul Herman (2015) A sustainable community based tourism enterprises through Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia in Semporna, Sabah: opportunities and challenges. In: International Conference on Natural Resources, Tourism and Services Management 2015, 14-16 Apr. 2015, Hotel Promenade, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. (pp. 190-199).

Abstract

The development of a sustainable community based tourism is determined on satisfying the objectives of all stakeholders in the system. The inter relationships among the stakeholders must be fully recognized since each stakeholder’s needs may be dissimilar from the others. The challenge for local communities and policy makers is to ascertain or generate opportunities that will provide sustainable development. Tourism is seen as one sector that could possibly provide such opportunities by the creation of tourism enterprises among local communities. Tourism enterprises are in most situations likely to be micro businesses. Most of the micro businesses ventured by local communities have relatively high failure rates. Therefore, it is important to deliberate a substantial integration among responsible stakeholders as to encourage and support tourism micro business ventures. This paper seeks to explore the opportunities and challenges of the community based tourism enterprises development in Semporna. The paper reports on panel data obtained from various local authorities, semi-structured interviews and author’s observations. The study highlights lack of participation in tourism micro etrprise among local communities and challenges faced by local authorities in supporting the ventures.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Divisions: Faculty of Forestry
Institute of Agricultural and Food Policy Studies
Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products
Publisher: Institut Kajian Dasar Pertanian dan Makanan, Universiti Putra Malaysia
Keywords: Community based tourism; Rural tourism; Microfinance; Microenterprise
Depositing User: Erni Suraya Abdul Aziz
Date Deposited: 30 Sep 2015 06:57
Last Modified: 28 Jul 2016 03:02
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40943
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